Our unification is not the same as your type of unification, but it is unification none the less.
B-b-b-b-b-b-ubba, ya think the UNITED States of America might have a familiar adjective in the front of it? Show me your unification. Not games.
If your brother went to jail, would your family stand united?
If your co-worker died, would your company stand as one?
If your daughter got pregnant out of wedlock, would your family stand unified?
If Canada did something stupid - like side with the USA - would you stand united?
You live on a bush and don't get it.
I know the power of our country and I know what our country and we as citizens are capable of..... I don't see any reason why we need to show it off to everybody else though..... nobody ever sees the quiet one coming ;-)
So you feel Canada's power is so puny that in order to be effective, you would have to sneak up on someone? I respect Canada, but war games are silly. Reminds me of wrestlin', Butterbean.
Nope, because Atlanta isn't in Canada. You already asked this, and many, including myself have already answered you with similar examples. We usually don't feel a need to take all our war machines down our streets to get people used to them roaming around their otherwise civil neighborhoods. We have air shows, war games, celebrations, Rememberance Day and many other examples of us showing what we are capable of.
WAR GAMES? :lol::lol::lol: Do you play that on PS3?
But the majority of our acknowlegdements of our military is usually not about how powerful or how great we are.... it's about the sacrafices the men behind those machines and in front of those machines have made to keep our country as it is.
A machine is just a form of technology, it's the people who make the difference.... always.
Oh, yes, of course, I agree - Canada alone has sacrificed SO SO much, made such a super-human contribution to world of medicine, poverty, suffering, finance, history, literature, and etc. squared.
I'm sure there was plenty of crimes going on in the background while they were doing nothing
Do you have any idea why Atlanta was locked down? And can't you extrapolate to an equally sized city in Canada? Now think, Prax. I really like you. I want you go get this one right. You fancy that you are so knowledgeable about all things. We weren't "showing off" - there was a real emergecy at hand.
But let me ask you this in response.... have you ever heard of the Highway of Heroes?
No, but if you ask me to look it up and feel it's important, I will do it.
Let me ask you another thing: You talk about how patriotic and unified your nation is..... if so, then how come nobody is ever shown any images of flagged caskets coming home of your sons and daughters who sacraficed so much, and they're simply labeled in your media as just another number?
Is it because once you guys start seeing faces and names to the numbers that you guys might start to lose your unity on the cause?
BBBBBBaby BBBBBBoy,
You just handle things in a totally different way. My grandmother used to say, "Send me my flowers when I'm alive." That what we do. We have a huge team at DFW who meets every incoming flight of military personnel with gifts, food, hugs, praise, and flowers. The returning soldiers are lauded.
That's what I heard from your officials...... so you can't simply have it both ways.
And you're proud of that? Well so long as you're proud of your martial law who am I to argue?
A person or even a country who feels as if they have no power is suffering from learned helplessness. BTW, they are probably wrong. But one way to inch upwards and feel better is to keep putting someone (like your southern neighbor) down. If you are young, as you say, that explains it.
I've seen enough military aircraft already in my somewhat young life that wern't doing "Tricks" and were actually doing their jobs.... what, you think there's some countries out there who just use their military for clowning around?
Apparently Canada does this with their "games."
And I'm just an average Canadian who works in front of a computer all day, who sees our military aircraft flying by the windows just about everyday, who sees the ships heading off to Afghanistan in the harbour right behind where I am sitting...... all of what you say isn't anything special.... and the majority of what you listed sounds more like invoking fear in the power of your nation over you..... oppression if you ask me.
The people shouldn't be afraid of their government.... the government should be afraid of their people.... that's how democracies last, and that's how they work.
Certainly not by forced martial law on a city of 6 million people..... that tells me there's something wrong, not something right.
